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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2007 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LIBS_UTILS_ANDROID_THREADS_H
+#define _LIBS_UTILS_ANDROID_THREADS_H
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+#if defined(HAVE_PTHREADS)
+# include <pthread.h>
+#endif
+
+#include <utils/ThreadDefs.h>
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// C API
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+// Create and run a new thread.
+extern int androidCreateThread(android_thread_func_t, void *);
+
+// Create thread with lots of parameters
+extern int androidCreateThreadEtc(android_thread_func_t entryFunction,
+                                  void *userData,
+                                  const char* threadName,
+                                  int32_t threadPriority,
+                                  size_t threadStackSize,
+                                  android_thread_id_t *threadId);
+
+// Get some sort of unique identifier for the current thread.
+extern android_thread_id_t androidGetThreadId();
+
+// Low-level thread creation -- never creates threads that can
+// interact with the Java VM.
+extern int androidCreateRawThreadEtc(android_thread_func_t entryFunction,
+                                     void *userData,
+                                     const char* threadName,
+                                     int32_t threadPriority,
+                                     size_t threadStackSize,
+                                     android_thread_id_t *threadId);
+
+// Used by the Java Runtime to control how threads are created, so that
+// they can be proper and lovely Java threads.
+typedef int (*android_create_thread_fn)(android_thread_func_t entryFunction,
+                                        void *userData,
+                                        const char* threadName,
+                                        int32_t threadPriority,
+                                        size_t threadStackSize,
+                                        android_thread_id_t *threadId);
+
+extern void androidSetCreateThreadFunc(android_create_thread_fn func);
+
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Extra functions working with raw pids.
+
+// Get pid for the current thread.
+extern pid_t androidGetTid();
+
+// Change the scheduling group of a particular thread.  The group
+// should be one of the ANDROID_TGROUP constants.  Returns BAD_VALUE if
+// grp is out of range, else another non-zero value with errno set if
+// the operation failed.  Thread ID zero means current thread.
+extern int androidSetThreadSchedulingGroup(pid_t tid, int grp);
+
+// Change the priority AND scheduling group of a particular thread.  The priority
+// should be one of the ANDROID_PRIORITY constants.  Returns INVALID_OPERATION
+// if the priority set failed, else another value if just the group set failed;
+// in either case errno is set.  Thread ID zero means current thread.
+extern int androidSetThreadPriority(pid_t tid, int prio);
+
+// Get the current priority of a particular thread. Returns one of the
+// ANDROID_PRIORITY constants or a negative result in case of error.
+extern int androidGetThreadPriority(pid_t tid);
+
+// Get the current scheduling group of a particular thread. Normally returns
+// one of the ANDROID_TGROUP constants other than ANDROID_TGROUP_DEFAULT.
+// Returns ANDROID_TGROUP_DEFAULT if no pthread support (e.g. on host) or if
+// scheduling groups are disabled.  Returns INVALID_OPERATION if unexpected error.
+// Thread ID zero means current thread.
+extern int androidGetThreadSchedulingGroup(pid_t tid);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+} // extern "C"
+#endif
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// C++ API
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+namespace android {
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+// Create and run a new thread.
+inline bool createThread(thread_func_t f, void *a) {
+    return androidCreateThread(f, a) ? true : false;
+}
+
+// Create thread with lots of parameters
+inline bool createThreadEtc(thread_func_t entryFunction,
+                            void *userData,
+                            const char* threadName = "android:unnamed_thread",
+                            int32_t threadPriority = PRIORITY_DEFAULT,
+                            size_t threadStackSize = 0,
+                            thread_id_t *threadId = 0)
+{
+    return androidCreateThreadEtc(entryFunction, userData, threadName,
+        threadPriority, threadStackSize, threadId) ? true : false;
+}
+
+// Get some sort of unique identifier for the current thread.
+inline thread_id_t getThreadId() {
+    return androidGetThreadId();
+}
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+}; // namespace android
+#endif  // __cplusplus
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#endif // _LIBS_UTILS_ANDROID_THREADS_H